Biography for
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Date of Birth

13 November 1923, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Date of Death

22 July 2011, Palm Desert, California, USA (colon cancer)

Birth Name

Blanca Rosa Welter

Nickname

The Anatomic Bomb

Mini Biography

Born Blanca Rosa Welter, her father was an executive with an important oil company and the future Linda Christian followed him from country to country: South Africa, Romania, Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Palestine. This was beneficial in that the little girl - a very good pupil at school - was eventually able to speak seven different foreign languages. She also turned into a shapely young lady who won a beauty contest. She started studying medicine in Palestine but had to be repatriated to the USA due to the international situation. She landed in Los Angeles and naturally considered a movie career there. She studied drama but got nothing but minor parts for years. She really became famous when she married Tyrone Power and her career somewhat improved. But it is scandal more than her film roles that long made her a favorite of the media, of the celebrity press rather than of specialized movie magazines.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Guy Bellinger

Spouse

Edmund Purdom	(24 March 1962 - 10 January 1963) (divorced)
Tyrone Power	(27 January 1949 - 7 August 1956) (divorced) 2 children

Trivia

Once worked as a plastic surgeon's assistant.

Worked for the British Censorship Bureau in Palestine.

Attended universities in Mexico, Venezuela, Palestine, South Africa, Holland and Italy.

Older sister of actress Ariadna Welter.

Mother of actress Taryn Power and actress Romina Power.

Was the very first "James Bond" girl, appearing in a TV adaptation of the Bond novel "Casino Royale" in 1954, "Climax!: Casino Royale (#1.3)" (1954).

Linda and her sister, Ariadna Welter, appeared in one movie together, The Devil's Hand (1962).

During the late 1940s Christian roomed with Ruth Roman and five other aspiring actresses. They called the residence "The House of Seven Garbos.".

Is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Palm Springs, CA.

In his autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" Errol Flynn says he met Linda Welter in a Mexico City bar and took her to Acapulco. She told him she had never been to the States and wanted to go. He offered a contract and, after she got to Hollywood, paid Dr. Bill Wallace to fix her teeth. Flynn had played Fletcher Christian, and changed her name to Linda Christian.